"There is more unused manufacturing capacity in the economy today than under any other President since the 1930's."
"I never knew either Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, but I can never forget the impact that their administrations had on my home State of Georgia."
"I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great Society 'promised too much.'"
"I will not let statistics obliterate human realities if I am elected President."
"I don't think these are excessive promises."
"I see an equally important task confronting the next President, as well."
"It was during these Kennedy-Johnson years that this nation made an unalterable commitment to heal the racial divisions that had estranged South from North and black from white for more than a century."
"More than any President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson reminded the American people that poverty has no place in a land that is as rich as this nation."
"I will try to build on the enduring framework of the Great Society and the New Frontier."
"I leave you with my pledge that I continue to be committed to the goals of the Great Society."
"Just think back to what life was like in 1961."
"Halfway measures are not enough."
"I want a law which will shut down outdated agencies and programs once and for all."
"The powerful few who benefit from waste and confusion, and their political allies are the loudest voices raised in protest."
"Too many bureaucrats learn the hard way to accept the creed."
"I think we can confine government to its proper role and make it an effective, efficient instrument of human needs."
"We should not behave abroad in ways that violate our own laws or moral standards."
"I find it unacceptable that we have in effect condoned the effort of some Arab countries to tell American businesses that, in order to trade with one country or company, they must observe certain rest..."
